šØš¦ Clinical Psychologist. Adjunct Assistant Professor @UCalgary. Movement: @ScienceUpFirst. Bylines: @Sciam, @CBCNews, @Slate, @Globalnews, @PsychToday et al
Calgary, Alberta
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Iām tired of the mental health misinformation and pseudoscience that pervades healthcare, pop culture, social media, and the wellness industry.
So I wrote a book about it.
And itās now available to pre-order. šāļø
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Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @HislopMD
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Covid vaccines saved an estimated 19.8 million lives in their first year.
thelancet.com/journals/laninā¦
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Vaccines donāt cause autism.
But conspiracy mentality and poor science literacy are linked to believing they do:
semanticscholar.org/paper/Thā¦
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What itās like for a food scientist to hear misinformation about raw milk:
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Itās wild living in the Information Age and the Dark Age at the same time.
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If 2022 were a penguin. nitter.app/nftbadger/status/15555ā¦
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What itās like for a food scientist to hear misinformation about raw milk:
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Iāve worked in a hospital setting for over a decade helping people who experience severe depression.
They didnāt choose it.
This is why mental health literacy matters.
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Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @HislopMD
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Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @HislopMD
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That time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it. nitter.app/jonathanstea/status/16ā¦
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Badger Brian
People who fall for conspiracy theories have a greater tendency to detect patterns.
But those patterns arenāt real. Theyāre random and illusory: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ā¦
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Good call, Dr. Hotez. Youāre a champion of public health.
Debating science deniers actually distorts public perceptions and makes it worse: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articleā¦
Itās never a debate. Itās a venue for propagandists to promote their ideas under the illusion of false balance.
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Anti-vaxxers congratulating themselves as Covid restrictions inevitably become lifted over time.
Jesus Christ
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Iāve worked in a hospital setting for over a decade helping people who experience severe depression.
Enough with the pill-shaming.
Sometimes diet and exercise changes are insufficient on their own to address the complexity and gravity of mental health concerns.
This is why mental health literacy matters.
Best to get your mental health recommendations from people who are qualified to do so.
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Today is World Homeopathy Day.
In its honor, letās remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.
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This is why we fund science.
Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC bbc.in/46jnMiX
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
- @DocBastard
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Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @HislopMD
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Scientists shouldnāt debate gaslighters.
Hucksters like RFK Jr are skilled at flooding the zone with garbage.
We can be gratified at the way clear thinkers rallied around @PeterHotez in the face of all the online abuse.
- @hholdenthorp
science.org/content/blog-posā¦
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I donāt always get my health information from anti-vaccine propaganda, but when I do, I prefer that itās written on a toilet door.
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RFK Jr: āResearch on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.ā
PubMed: āHereās over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autismā¦
ā¦including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.ā
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
But conspiracy mentality and poor science literacy are linked to believing they do:
semanticscholar.org/paper/Thā¦
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Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @HislopMD
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Please donāt drink borax.
Community note
The European Chemical Agency labelled Borax as being ātoxic to reproductionā, noting that āthis substance may damage fertility and may damage the unborn childā.
Other health bodies worldwide also caution against consuming it.
Sources:
fullfact.org/health/borax-tā¦
medicalnewstoday.com/articles/32416ā¦
politifact.com/factchecks/202
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According to anti-vaccine activists, if you get your information from Natural News or Tucker Carlson or Rumble, you're doing your own research.
But if you get it from medical communities relaying scientific consensus conducted by countless experts worldwide, you're a sheeple.
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Passengers: Quick! Is there a doctor onboard?! Heās having a heart attack!
Chiropractor: Here I am! šļøāāļø
Lmao.
H/t @realjesseluke
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My mother doesnāt always try to fight my battles, but when she does, itās kind of funny.
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āDebating the science" describes exactly what experts do everyday in the scientific literature.
It's not a 2-hour entertaining chit-chat on a podcast with a leader in the anti-vaccine movement.
Science isnāt reality tv.
This harassment is absolutely disgusting.
I confronted @PeterHotez and asked why he is too scared to debate @RobertKennedyJr on the @joerogan podcast!
W/ @merissahansen17
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Stop telling me āto do my research.ā
Sane people use the internet to research the best price on underpants and the top recipe for mushroom risotto.
You canāt research pandemics and virology on the internet to the point where you become a credible authority.
- @ShayeGanam
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Schizophrenia exists.
Mental illness exists.
Psychiatric medications can be life-saving.
Psychotherapy can be life-saving.
Don't let misinformed people tell you otherwise.
Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. āļø
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Whether the topic is:
- Climate change
- GMOs
- Nuclear power
- Vaccines
- Homeopathy
- Astronomy
- Evolution
- or Covid-19...
...People who disagree most with the scientific consensus know less about the topic, but they think they know more.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciaā¦
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I work in a hospital setting in Calgary, Alberta.
This anonymous note--from a high school student--was left on the windshield of one of my co-workers in an attempt to raise the spirits of health care workers who have been so brutally demoralized lately.
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Intellectual humility is negatively correlated with anti-vaccination attitudes.
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1ā¦
Coincidence that a country, Finland, that teaches critical thinking skills early and often has high confidence in vaccines?
- 93% strongly agree vaccines important.
- 0% disagree.
vaccineconfidence.org/our-woā¦ via @vaccine_trust #ScienceUpFirst
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Sometimes powerful images are needed to convey powerful messages.
Misinformation can kill.
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While you canāt smell vaccination in people, you can detect a distinctive bovine waste smell emitting from anti-vaccine propaganda.
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āNever play chess with a pigeon.
The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over.
Then shits all over the board.
Then struts around like it won.ā
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āWhen a woman delivers twins, one male and one female, one breast will produce one type of milk and the other breast will produce another type of milk."
- Jaggi Vasudev, spiritual guru
Um. š
h/t @l_krishnan @theliverdoc
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Just your regular, everyday patient-blaming, ableism, and science illiteracy from a leader in the anti-vaccine movement.
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While flat-earth beliefs have become a punchline, germ theory denialism is less well known but equally absurd, as the worldview it espouses denies the scientific discipline of virology.
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Anti-vaccine propaganda from 1892.
Same fear-mongering tactics, different century.
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Homeopathy is not ānaturalā or āplantsā or āherbal medicine.ā
Itās slightly more than 200 years old and was born in Germany.
It postulates that a remedy becomes more effective when the active ingredient has been diluted out of existence.
Itās a $1.2 billion industry in the US alone.
It is expensive nothing.
All fraud.
Honestly, a āscientistā has nothing to say of value when it comes to the study of the use of plants as true medicine, because from his perspective he has abandoned God and natureās balanced way for healing.
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Ivermectin for Covid-19. nitter.app/Don_Favs/status/168607ā¦
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If 10 electricians said my house was in danger of a fire, but a plumber disagreed, Iād fix the wiring.
If 50 liver specialists said my child needed a transplant, but a dentist disagreed, Iād get the transplant.
Learn to trust experts. They know more than you.
- @ThinkingPowers
"Expert" is a meaningless terms, it creates a false sense of impartiality. But in reality, it's just public relations language. Every single company calls themselves "experts" in their respective fields, every salesman pretends to be an expert.
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Tucker Carlson misunderstands that in everyday speech, "theory" refers to a hunch or a speculation, but in science, it refers to a comprehensive explanation of nature.
Many scientific theories are so well-established that no new evidence is likely to change them.
E.g: evolution
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Covid vaccines saved an estimated 19.8 million lives in their first year.
thelancet.com/journals/laninā¦
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Covid vaccines saved an estimated 19.8 million lives in their first year: thelancet.com/journals/laninā¦
Vaccines prevent 3.5 to 5 million deaths every year from more than 20 life-threatening diseases: who.int/health-topics/vaccinā¦
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Anyone who downplays the threat of the anti-vaccine movement is either not paying attention or has been bamboozled.
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When clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and whatās true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
- Carl Sagan, 1995
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Social media is that special place where you can find someone trying to explain The Handmaidās Tale to the author of The Handmaidās Tale.
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While you canāt smell vaccination in people, you can detect a distinctive bovine waste smell emitting from anti-vaccine propaganda.
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
But poor science literacy is linked to believing they do: semanticscholar.org/paper/Thā¦
The anti-vaccine movement is a public health hazard.
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Pseudoscience is attractive because it promises certainty, whereas science gives us probability and doubt.
- Dr. Carol Tavris
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Misinformation kills.
52 American physicians actively spread Covid-19 misinformation to millions of people on social media about vaccines, masks, and conspiracies.
One third of the more than 1,100,000 Covid-19-related deaths as of January 18 2023 were preventable if public health recommendations were followed.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamā¦
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My math skills are admittedly horrible, but I take pride in knowing that I passed high school biology. šāļø
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āAdrenal fatigueā was invented by the wellness industry.
Itās a fake diagnosis.
The Endocrine Society, representing 18,000 endocrinologists, have stated, āCurrent medical science recognizes no such condition.ā
sciencebasedmedicine.org/adrā¦
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Covid vaccines saved an estimated 19.8 million lives in their first year.
thelancet.com/journals/laninā¦
Number of lives saved by COVID Vaccines and Paxlovid over the last 3 years is ZERO.
Add to this, the sickest people, who trust "the science", the most - multiple comorbidities/prescriptions are still not being protected.
What does "the $cience", say about this, Jon?
Or should I ask an actual doctor?
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Physicians who prescribe ivermectin for Covid-19.
Jesus Christ
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If you find yourself craving people instead of ice cream for dessert tomorrow, hereās why:
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People who are more likely to override intuitive thinking with analytical thinking are less gullible, less likely to exist in echo chambers, and less likely to spread misinformation from unreliable sources.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0ā¦
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Anyone who downplays the propaganda of the anti-vaccine movement is either not paying attention or has been bamboozled.
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